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It’s that time of year again. I’ve been seeing the signs all over proclaiming: “flu shots here” from Walgreens to doctor’s clinics all over the city where I live. And I hear conversations from people everywhere saying that they need to get into their doctor and get their flu shot before it’s too late.

So why is there so much hype about the flu vaccine? Does the flu shot really keep us from getting the flu?

The truth is, no real evidence exists about flu shot vaccines being beneficial for anyone. Before the use of the flu vaccine, two of the major reasons why deaths from flu and pneumonia declined by 90 percent around the turn of the century (1900) was due to dramatic improvements in sanitation practices (plumbing and electricity) as well as nutrition.

One thing’s for certain: no one in my family will be getting the flu shot this year or anytime in the future. I don’t think many people would argue that getting the flu is unpleasant…but if you should get the flu and your body can fight it off without using drugs, you will gain natural immunity. And, if you take precautions by eating well and living a healthy lifestyle, you shouldn’t have to worry about the flu much at all. Here’s why:

No evidence the flu shot is effective

In 2004, The National Vaccine Information Center cited that the vaccines did not actually contain the flu strain that caused most flu outbreaks occurring that year. In that same year, the Lancet published a study showing no correlation between the flu shot and the decreased risk of contracting pneumonia.

A large, systematic review of 51 studies which used 260,000 children ranging in ages from 6 to 23 months found no evidence that the flu vaccine is any more effective than a placebo. Each year, current shots are only able to “protect” against specific strains of the virus, produced from last year’s virus in a laboratory. If you come into contact with a different strain, you are very much vulnerable to catching the flu.

It is common for people to come down with flu symptoms after getting a flu shot. This is because the flu shot contains some of those antigens to cause your body to produce an artificial reaction to the virus. The vaccine actually damages your immune system since it bypasses airborne, topical (through the skin), and the digestive system – the natural and permanent methods of gaining immunity – caused by toxic ingredients in the vaccine triggering a super-reaction in your immune system.

The research of Dr. Russell Blaylock, M.D. shows damage to the immune system and brain

Dr. Russell Blaylock, M.D. found in various neuroscience studies a strong link between vaccination and brain inflammation, which can go on for years or decades. Much of conventional medical science mistakenly believed for years that the brain is granted protection from immune activation by the special protective blood-brain barrier. Since then, more recent studies discovered that immune cells enter the brain directly, and also that the brain’s own special immune system becomes activated by vaccination. This special immune system functions due to the activity of a unique cell known as the microglia. These types of cells are found all throughout the brain and exist in dormancy until activated. In this case, the most critical stimuli to activate brain microglia (which triggers the body’s immune system) is through vaccination.

Once activated, there is no way to separate activation of the brain’s immune cells. The stronger the immune response, the more the brain’s stimulation continues. As long as the primary immune system is stimulated, so is the brains’s immune response. When this occurs, powerful, inflammatory excitotoxins and cytokines are mobilized which produce brain damage – similar to encephalitis.

This is the same type of reaction seen with various other vaccines which leads to seizures, autism spectrum disorders, and encephalitis in children. Recommendations from both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Family Practice have included vaccinations for children including newborn infants and also yearly flu shots for both children and adults. The list for required vaccinations is growing year by year, and according to the CDC, currently is nearly at 60 different vaccines before the age of 6 years.

In mature and older adults, studies are linking vaccinations to diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s, dementia, and ALS.

What ingredients are included in the flu vaccine?

Claims have been made by various sources that the new 2010-2011 flu vaccine is mercury-free. Even if mercury were no longer included (which it still is in many vaccines) Dr. Lawrence Palevsky, M.D. discusses the other toxic ingredients found in vaccines:

Egg proteins: including avian contaminant viruses (these are certain to originate from hens in factory-farm environments)

Gelatin: known to cause allergic reactions and anaphylaxis are usually associated with sensitivity to egg or gelatin

In addition to these ingredients, flu vaccines also contain various antibiotics such as neomycin, polymyxin B and gentamicin. These are included to eliminate stray bacteria found in the mixture. Research shows that antibiotics destroy beneficial bacteria necessary to maintain health. Antibiotic drugs decrease the immune system’s functionality and cause the overgrowth of candida, which also suppresses the immune system.

When our bodies become too toxic, they attempt to ‘detox’ these substances out. The real cause of influenza is the body’s ability to remove toxins from the foods we eat and from the environment around us. When we eat processed foods and substances that are unrecognizable by our digestive system (difficult to digest), and if our digestive system is compromised and unable to digest healthy foods, the severity of flu symptoms will be stronger. Levels of toxins in the body versus the amount of available nutritional elements (such as Vitamin D or Vitamin C) are the primary components to determine severity or success of the cleansing process which we know as “flu symptoms”.

Natural ways to avoid the flu

Eat healthy, real foods with live nutrients, enzymes, vitamins and minerals goes a long way toward preventing or minimizing flu illnesses:

Cultured and fermented foods made at home such as cultured vegetables, kefir, yogurt, sour cream, kombucha, and water kefir.

If you are a parent who has vaccinated or are considering vaccination, please read this heart-felt story from one of my readers and friends from Facebook, Vicki and her son Charlie (residents of the UK).

This story is a follow-up to the post about Dr. Wakefield and the MMR vaccine from Monday, and I wanted to provide this first-hand account from a mother who has been dealing with the aftermath of vaccination side-effects for the last couple of years.

Stories from parents about their experiences with their children and vaccinations are invaluable because it’s one of the only ways their stories can be heard. The media and mainstream medial outlets never share this information with the public unless it is to defame and criticize the things parents have to say.

It is important to note that Vicki’s son did not receive the MMR vaccine, and he has still experienced the repercussions of multiple doses from other vaccines.

Ultimately, doctors (and journalists like Brian Deer who claimed on camera that diarrhea, constipation, and other related symptoms were not bowel disease) don’t really know what the families are going through. Time and time again, parent’s voices are squashed in the scope of vaccine and other health information. But it’s time these voices were heard and given their day in hearing. How many of these parents are telling a similar story – children who cannot have bowel movements for days, or are plagued with stomach cramps, pain, and chronic diarrhea…or have lost much of their abilities to socialize, interact, respond, or communicate?

It is very common for people to heckle those who believe vaccines aren’t safe, and the common philosophy about vaccines is that everyone should get them, without exception. But what about the rising voice of the parent community, who report time and time again of health problems their children experience immediately after receiving vaccinations? What about the first-ever court case in 2010 where a family was awarded funds because their child was found to exhibit symptoms of autism that were directly connected to vaccination?

Much of what many parents do when they go out on their own, no thanks to their doctors or health care professionals, is learning how to manage their children’s health challenges alone. But often what they find waiting is a huge community of others experiencing the same kinds of things, and this is where they find support and where healing can finally begin.

Unlike other children, Charlie didn’t receive the MMR, but still developed autism and related symptoms anyway. Read their story and decide for yourself.
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Charlie was born of 14/8/07 in the UK. The pregnancy was difficult with me having Gestational Diabetes (insulin-dependent) and pre-eclampsia along with symphsis pubis pain for which anti-inflamatories and pain medication were prescribed. I was also on Methly Dopa for high blood pressure from the very start of the pregnancy. My son was born prematurely at 35 weeks gestation by c-section after I received a steroid injection to mature his lung function 3 days prior. (My first pregnancy with my daughter was exactly the same resulting in her being born by c-section at 36 weeks and in a diabetic coma – neonatal intensive care, oxygen therapy, jaundice and failure to feed).

Charlie was 3 on 14th August and was only diagnosed with Autism officially in April this year (2010), although I’ve known for some time exactly what his problems were and that he was on the spectrum. I believe very early on in life he was vaccine damaged and also suffered from a build up of incredible environmental toxins. Although he was premature (born at 35 weeks) he fed well and thrived, giving eye contact when feeding, and turning his head to the sound of my voice until 7 weeks of age. At 7 weeks he was given the Hep B vaccination with the mercury preservative, thimerosal, in Bulgaria and from the day after all eye contact stopped, he stopped feeding properly, cried all the time, failed to thrive had terrible stomach and gut ache with loose stools at every nappy change up to 10 bowel movements a day and they were awful!)

I didn’t want to believe it was the vaccine that caused Charlie’s problems for a very long time, I thought the reaction was a temporary thing when he started to reach early milestones on time like crawling and walking. You see, I’ve always been an advocate of vaccines and was determined my kids would have them all, no questions – God, how I wish I hadn’t been so naive and stupid. Its actually only very recently that I’ve accepted that this is probably the cause of his autism and problems. I even went on to get him all his other shots on top of that! The only one he didn’t get was the MMR and that was by a sheer stroke of luck that the vaccination programme in Bulgaria, where we lived, didn’t include the MMR and by the time we came back to the UK I’d realised I was poisoning him and refused it. I’m still fighting with my medical centre, but there’s no way he’s getting it.

I now believe vaccines are unsafe for a percentage of children. In particular premature babies and babies of low birth weight. I also believe a relatively significant percentage of babies have immature immune systems and cannot cope with the insults a vaccine or a battery of vaccines placed on their systems. I also believe the potential harm of all vaccines is far greater than the benefit to public health that they provide. With 1 in 40 boys and 1 in 90 girls now diagnosed with ASD (UK stats) I KNOW something suspicious is happening to our children.

As Charlie grew, I knew he was different and possibly on the spectrum but still I didn’t really believe it could be the vaccine. Even as he was referred for assessment for ASD I put more belief in some kind of genetic glitch. But the more I investigate, and the more I look back at my own notes to do with Charlie’s vaccination record and the start of his problems along with all stories I read about other kids in the same position; the more I see exactly how, pharmaceutical companies, big insurance companies and mass media corporations control governments with their greed, self-interest and corruption; the more I understand that vaccine damage to children is a sad and sorry truth that governments are happy to continue in the dressed up name of a public health interest, merely accepting the broken lives of these children as acceptable ‘collateral damage’. Covering up the extent and infact existence of such injury is paramount to protecting everybody involved in this and their financial interests – and where there’s billions of dollars, massive power and multi-faceted corruption involved, its a heck of a task to beat them.

The other thing I need to tell you about is our home environment in Bulgaria where we lived until December last year. We brought Charlie into this house at 7 weeks of age – the same week he had the Hep B coincidentally and he lived in this environment for most of his life (7 weeks till 2.5 years) We only went back to the UK for the birth and neonate period of my son’s life; the whole time he was growing inside me during the pregnancy, I was living in this house too. We recently, on holiday noticed the timbers needed some re-staining/preserving and searched all over the place to find the correct colour match but couldn’t for the life of us find a good match so I ended up phoning the Bulgarian builder that renovated this old house for us to ask him where to get the stain from. What he told me made me feel sick! He told me that in these traditional old houses they use dirty engine oil as a wood preserve because the colour matches the old aged timbers perfectly and its also very cheap, especially when the houses are made from so much timber. So when I realised what was in dirty engine oil and just how toxic it was it was like being hit in the face by a steel girder! Lead, Arsenic, Cadmium and Aluminium were all inhaled by the whole family day in day out for 4 years (Charlie 2.5 years plus in utero exposure through myself) Now we have this poisonous house in Bulgaria that we can’t use as a holiday home and we can’t sell either because I couldn’t bear the thought of hurting someone else or someone else’s poor child. I have no idea how to remove the toxins from this house but..removing the toxins from my son is the obvious priority – I guess the whole family is poisoned (my daughter displays strong ADD symptoms since returning to the UK, I’m chronically ill with something non-specific I do not know what it is and my husband can’t remember anything for toffee! )

Hopefully you get the picture now. Urinary porphyrin testing recently came back stating my son had remarkable mercury toxicity of bodily tissues, there is also marked lead and arsenic poisoning too indicated in the results – There are also knock on nutritional and bowel issues that Charlie has to deal with every day and he IS in pain. Don’t let anyone tell you children with autism don’t have any pain, its simply not true.

Charlie also developed asthma this year, but I was determined he wouldn’t be dependent on steroid inhalers. So I only used these a couple of times with him in emergency situations.

I felt encouraged to find other mothers doing positive things for their children and taking back control of their health and it gave me hope to see so many little miracles happening on a daily basis, step by step, that I decided I wanted desperately to be a part of that hope and to take positive steps to make Charlie well again. I am also aware that early intervention while the infant brain retains a level of plasticity is the best hope for any child with an ASD. It is very frustrating and upsetting looking at how my son struggles, and I’m sure it’s exactly the same for every mother with a child with ASD. I sit all day trying to engage him and then feel a failure when I can’t. He now has some very lucid moments and does try to socialise with other children. It is absolutely delightful when he does engage and says the odd word or two or kisses me. I began biomed myself alone on 2nd May this year with the help of another Mother on Facebook and I began the gluten/casein-free diet with Charlie too – a kind of shock and awe approach with so many supplements enzymes, probiotics, and omegas. Probably not recommended by the doctor, but it worked almost immediately.

We have been eating good nutritious diets of only organically-grown and reared food for some years, but since Charlie’s diagnosis, I’ve learned so much more about food and how fundamental it is to good health. Sounds obvious doesn’t it? But there really is so much more to the idiotic lies we get fed about diets and nutrition.

This is a note I made about Charlie on 2nd June this year:

Charlie is now beginning to speak regularly 2 and 3 word sentences, all stimming and obsessive behaviour has stopped. Play is almost age appropriate and normal. He sings, dances, asks for things without pulling and dragging, makes jokes and bickers “yes/no” with his sister. He can read 20 familiar words and has a good labeling vocabulary of well over 100 words. Potty training going well, only bowel control to master properly. Sleeps through night and also for 2 hours during day. Peace and calm reigns. Still some sensory issues and still some difficulty sometimes responding to name and eye contact. No asthmatic/allergic symptoms, but still has prominent purple circles under eye area and looks very pale and sickly.

You can see from the tests that he is toxic for mercury (from the vaccine) the first assault and then lead, arsenic, and cadmium, all subsequent damage owing to the initial trauma of the vaccine damage of Hep B which makes him unable now to detoxify like you or I. I have many other tests detailing complex issues my son has to do with nutrition, absorption, gut dysbiosis, immune skewing and oxidative stress.

I want to thank Vicki for sharing her son’s story and the struggle her family has been through. It is my hope that people will read this story and understand what is going on with vaccination, that these substances are not harmless, and health and medical establishments are doing nothing to acknowledge nor put and end to this problem.

From a conversation I had with Vicki the other day, when parents take their children to be vaccinated in Britain, there is no literature given to parents explaining the possible risks or side-effects of vaccines. Although parents in the United States do receive a statement about risks and side-effects, those possibilities are always downplayed and made to sound as though they are extremely rare and unimportant. I’ve never been to a doctor who was cautionary about vaccination, or who made any statement other than complete support of getting vaccinated. As parents, we should have choices and be educated, but our medical system strips us of those rights.

It’s up to the citizens to take charge of this situation and do something about it. We must make our voices heard and continue to work toward education and truth as far as this situation is concerned.

If you suspect your child has been damaged by a vaccine, or if you are still considering whether or not to vaccinate, here are some resources: